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i NITED STATES PATENT Prien.

, JOHN DEAN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARDHOLDER.

T0 'all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN DEAN, of 'Worcester, in the county of Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Making Picture or Carte Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being made to the anneXed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which similar letters indicate similar partsthroughout the figures.

The nature ot' my invention consists in Inaking or forming from a single sheet or piece of metal a picture-frame fitted with all the parts necessary to secure the same in place, together with the glass and back. This frame I call a porte'cartev as it is designed, chiefly, for holding photograph cartes fle-visite. I take a sheet of some suitable metal, as copper, and cut the outer edge into some ornamental shape or figure, and ot' the yproper size, as shown in Figures l and 4. Then, With a stamp or die, a piece ofthe metal is taken out of the center of the plate to form the opening through which the picture is to be viewed, and as shown at a. The sides, as seen in Fig. l, represent an irregular figure. Three of these are so formed as to be capable of being folded back, and constitute the sides and clamping-pieces to receive and secure the picture, and are as shown at b. The leaves b are first to be bent, so as to stand at a right angle to the vback of the frame, as shown in the section, Fig. 2, and when thus bent the opening in the plate on three sides is square, the top being arched for the sake of giving a more ornamental appear- Witnesses:

ance. Next the leaves are turned still farther, sol as to lie parallel with the back, and are again bent up to stand at a right angle. This forms a narrow dat, assliovvn at c inl Figs. 2

and 4. It is on this ilat that the picture with part, c, to which the back standard or legs is to be attached, by which the frame may be set up to be viewed. Thus is produced atsmall cost a neat and serviceable picture-frame having all the qualities due to others made ofra number of parts. On this Vframe the recess formed by the leaves and clamps gives stiffness and stability to the metal and protects at the same time any picture it may contain. When the opening-,for the center is square, the clamping-leaves may be formed also on all sides.

The border may be gilt, engraved and decorated, to suit the taste andfancy, in any desirable manner.

I claim- Forming a portable frame or porte carte-dem'site from a single sheet of metal in the manner described herein.

In yWitness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JOHN DEAN.

J. I. PrRssoN, J. H. MAYNARD. 

